Dan Slee has mentioned a couple of times recently how much he likes History Pin and, as with most things, it slowly worked its way into my brain as something to check out when I had the time. I liked the idea, which is that you can add photos to a Google Map against a period in time, but had quite lazily thought that I didn’t really have any photos of great historic interest.
Then I remembered that time a tornado hit my house.
House struck by Birmingham Tornado
What does the average Joe on the street know about how galaxies are formed? Well, apparently we know more than we think: www.GalaxyZoo.org allows anyone to help researchers at Oxford University identify the shapes of one million galaxies photographed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope.
This is the latest example of how computers and humans can not only co-exist, but can combine their strengths in new and innovative ways to achieve things that neither could achieve alone. More – What do you know about galaxy formation?
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